Oh, I am sure there is plenty of the nasty out there Gene. It's just that where something like Flexible survival, see database entry here was so overthetop it was grotesque, indeed if it weren't for my genophobia I'd probably have spent time with flexible survival, the writing in Forum wars just struck me as basic, common place complaints about internet sterriotypes.

Still, as I said, the game did have mechanics to recommend it, for example it has community assistance addding new forums and threads to fight, and items to use on a weekly basis, so you'd never get tired of seeing the same enemy descriptions as happens in some browser games, also i do like the idea of a game doing what KoL and Metroplexity and Twilight heroes and all the other dayly turn limit turn based rpgs do and actually giving you an option for virtually unlimited turns to finish the story so long as you don't want to be in player league tables. The Payed items werent' massively expensive either from what I gathered by looking at the online store.

Still, there are better written comedy games out there like Kingdom of loathing, see db page here , or for that matter Puppet nightmares]db page here , though to what extent that is comedy and to what extent a really serious rpg with some commical elements is debatable sinse the story can get  surprisingly dark and surreal.

Once you got into the game I wouldn't say the thing was actively difficult for the most part interface wise, it's just that most of the links had slightly different names and functions. for example "bookmarks" was sort of like your travel link, and S talk was your npc contacts, while the game's actual discussion forums were referd to amusingly enough as flame bate .

I didn't try the in game chat or any multiplayer so I don't know if there has been overhaul there.

With the battle screen, things were a trifle complex sinse there were lots of unlabeled random images as links which didn't do anything, but all the important info was readable, and so long as you keep watching the battle log up top and the abilities bar further down where you activated your attacks things were fine, ---- heck you could read the mock forum postings if you wished too.

Oddly enough though I obviously am a forum administrator, it isn't necessarily the forum attacking motivation that bothers me, indeed the hacker class is one of the ones that bothers me least.

It's more just the execution. Real life emo kids usually have actual problems so taking the micky by replicating comments about self harm is just pretty sad, the same goes for the "permanoob" class which is supposedly about the well meaning person who is not an experienced net user, ---- indeed having been one of these myself for quite some time I always have sympathy and try to help people with basic questions rather than seeing them as there to be laughed at.

Yes, trolls and s/xually promiscuous people who get a kick out of supposedly disturbing others or causing trouble exist, but simply building a game engine to replicate their behaviour in rpg attacks is to me just sad, rather than humourus (particularly sinse in reality such people rarely get to actually distroy forums).

I definitely think the game could! have been a lot of fun if it had writing that was a bit more sharp and witty rather than just riding that one trick "oooh look it's a game about internet sterriotypes pony" all the way through.

For example, imagine if it were more rpg like and the troll had a weapon called the flaming club of flaming expletives, or the permanood had a quest to find the missing any key.

I don't think I'd go that far gene, it's no worse than the many bouts of belly aching about forum trends and members that so often occur on forums themselves, the sorts of people who start posts with "what's wrong with this community", or "the trouble with people like that" and I certainly don't claim to have a pure record on that score myself. Yes, it is rather sad, but just in the way prejudices usually are.

It just strikes me the creators of forum wars instead of actually working on riting interesting satyr and properly timed comedy, simply picked their favourite perceived pet peaves and sterriotypes of forum behaviour and replicated it into a game.

I'd certainly not cryticise anyone for playing which is why indeed I posted this topic in the first place, in fact as I said above there are one or two factors here that do distinguish the gameplay of forum wars, albeit that unfortunately for me those factors don't compensate for the less than stellar standard of the humour.

Well from what I gathered there were a few ongoing things, though no mention of new episodes.
Firstly, there were deals and such mentions in the game's store some of which I got the idea were new items.
Secondly, there is community item builder and forum builder software and new forum dungeons are put up each week, while these are essentially new battles with no storyline they do as I said insure you don't have to just fight the same monsters again and again.

As to what to do when finishing episode 3, well like KoL it seemed to be possible to purchice another character and go through as a different class, and the permanoob class was even mentioned as an advanced play and not to be attempted first time around.
So there did seem to be some stuff going on with the game as regards updates even if not actually updates to the story or side quests,  and considdering that what I saw the game was heavy on batles and for obvious internet reasons doesn't really have the exploring it did strike me as a good way around.

Hay Mayana, if you like the game fare enough, i did like some of the mechanics.
I can't help you on the japanese girl thing though sinse that wasn't a part I saw, though I don't think it's possible to fail at the story so maybe her blocking you had a purpose.

Hmmm, perhaps checking the wiki or asking on the flamebate forums might help here. I unfortunately stopped playing just after I was given that mission by anonymous to by the system, so don't have an idea on what comes next in the story.